As a former guerrilla com-mander of the African National Congress, Joe Modise was an unlikely architect of the new South Africa's multi-racial defence force. As the country's first black defence ...

The Democratic Alliance said on Friday that claims former minister of defence Joe Modise abused his office for personal gain was a further blow to the government. Spokesperson Raenette Taljaard said ...

The new biography of Joe Modise, one-time commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC), is welcome. Comrade and Commander fills in a blank about ...

At the time of his death, Joe Modise’s closest associates were a band of white arms company executives drawn from the greasy brotherhood of the sanctions-busting era — a strange legacy for a man ...

Joe Modise, a guerrilla fighter who led the armed struggle against apartheid and became South Africa’s first black defense minister, has died in his home near Pretoria, government officials said. He ...

Joe Modise, 72, who led the armed struggle to topple apartheid and went on to become South Africa’s defense minister in 1994, died Monday of cancer in Pretoria. As defense minister, Modise oversaw the ...

Most of the cabinet gathered at the home of gravely ill former defence minister Joe Modise on Thursday night to witness President Thabo Mbeki honour him with one of South Africa's highest awards.

Tributes from different embassies including those of Germany, Syria, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates were still pouring in on Tuesday night to the family of former defence minister Joe Modise, ...

Joe Modise, the former minister of defence and one of the figures central to the multi-agency probe into corruption in South Africa's R50-billion arms deal, had a six-bedroom mansion constructed ...

The new biography of Joe Modise, one-time commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of South Africa's African National congress (ANC), is welcome. Comrade and Commander fills in a blank about ...